So it's not an issue to use Chinese manufactured electronic devices like mobile phones, laptops and TV's in your day-to-day lives, but all of a sudden the US needs to use a Chinese satellite and the foil hat wearers come out of the basement in fear? Think of the use of a Chinese satellite like the US using a Chinese made laptop or mobile phone, not really a big deal. We're talking about the US government here, the data would be heavily encrypted but if things were to ever sour the Chinese wouldn't need to try and decrypt the traffic to cause problems, they'd merely have to disable access to the satellite and boom! US loses a massive amount of needed bandwidth which would be far more damaging than decrypting the information I'd assume.
Considering just how much money is spent on defence yearly in the US I am surprised something as trivial as satellite bandwidth capacity is an issue. More money is spent on the military than anything else in the budget and yet after all of those hundreds of billions, still need to borrow capacity from a Chinese satellite. Makes you wonder where the priorities actually are doesn't it?
This is not really a big deal as far as privacy is concerned, it does however show just how reliant the US amongst other countries have become on countries like China for innovating and help keeping up with this heavily connected and forever-evolving world. Hopefully the in-sourcing boom trend continues and perhaps the US starts innovating and relying on itself again instead of others.
Considering just how much money is spent on defence yearly in the US I am surprised something as trivial as satellite bandwidth capacity is an issue. More money is spent on the military than anything else in the budget and yet after all of those hundreds of billions, still need to borrow capacity from a Chinese satellite. Makes you wonder where the priorities actually are doesn't it?
This is not really a big deal as far as privacy is concerned, it does however show just how reliant the US amongst other countries have become on countries like China for innovating and help keeping up with this heavily connected and forever-evolving world. Hopefully the in-sourcing boom trend continues and perhaps the US starts innovating and relying on itself again instead of others.